Senior Observability Platform Engineer

CVS Health; Town of Montana (WI); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health's Enterprise Observability Platform team is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will develop backend services using Go, Python, and Java, and lead OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation across the enterprise.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure, and security teams to shape platform strategy, enhance developer

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of observability practices, including SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, alerting, and incident management.
• 3+ years building production-grade backend services in Go and/or Java.
• 3+ years implementing and operating OpenTelemetry, including OTLP, semantic conventions, and instrumentation patterns.
• 3+ years with cloud-native and containerized platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD).
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• 2+ years designing and scaling distributed, high-volume data pipelines.
• 2+ years with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• 2+ years with Helmcharts, Kustomize etc
• 2+ years working with Grafana OSS or comparable observability backends (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir)
• 2+ years with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Develop custom software to drive the observability platform using technologies such as Java Spring Boot, Python, Go-lang etc
• Design, build, and operate core observability platform services using Go, Python, Java (Spring Boot)
• Support and lead enterprise-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, including client libraries, semantic conventions, instrumentation patterns, and Collector/agent strategy
• Design, architect and scale high‑throughput, fault‑tolerant telemetry pipelines (logs, metrics, traces) with a focus on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Develop self‑service observability capabilities that simplify onboarding, troubleshooting, and adoption for application teams
• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring of the observability platform itself, defining SLOs, health checks, and alerting
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Cloud teams to establish reliability standards, error budgets, and incident response practices
• Participate in on‑call rotations and lead incident mitigation, root‑cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews
• Automate operational workflows and eliminate manual toil through tooling, CI/CD enhancements, and platform automation
• Ensure secure telemetry pipelines through mTLS, secrets management, and zero‑trust design patterns
• Produce and maintain high‑quality technical documentation, standards, and best practices
• Engage with internal engineering teams to gather requirements, influence roadmap prioritization, and deliver platform improvements
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship, design reviews, architectural guidance, and cross‑team collaboration with principal engineers and engineering leadership

Skills

Software Engineering

Observability

OpenTelemetry

Go

Python

Java

SRE collaboration

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Grafana OSS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

CVS Health's Enterprise Observability Platform team is seeking a Senior Observability Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale observability services that process billions of logs, metrics, and traces daily. You will develop backend services using Go, Python, and Java, and lead OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation across the enterprise.

You will partner with SRE, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure, and security teams to shape platform strategy, enhance developer